• Citing rising corn feed costs for its downfall, Townsends Inc., a Delaware-based industrial chicken processor, sold its remaining plants at a bankruptcy sale. [Inquirer]
• A bill passed by a House panel in Minnesota would prevent obese people from suing fast-food chains. Wait, you can do that? [CBS News]
• GMO crops, with qualities like herbicide tolerance, now cover 10 percent of the world’s farmland. [USAT]
• The protests in Libya have been fueled by rising food prices, according to this writer. [Christian Science Monitor]
• The author of I Love Corn is suing the author of I Love Bacon! for a too-similar title. But c’mon, those cookbooks must have totally different audiences! [NYDN]
